Improvement in cant-hooks



J. WOODMAN GERRIS'H, 0F BETIIEL, MAINE.

Letters Patent No. 69,560, dated October 8, 1867.

.IMPROVEMENT IN CANT-BOOKS.

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TO ALL PERSONS TOVWIIOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

l Ile it known that I, J. WOODMAN GERRISH, of Bethel, in the county of Oxford, and State ot' Maine, have invented L new and useful Improvement in the Cantinglilies used by lumbermen; :1nd,I do hereby declare the same to he fully described in the following speeilication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, et' which- Figures 1 and 2 are side elevations, and

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of a canting-pilie made in my improved form, a portion only of the stall` of the pike being represented in such figures as projecting from the metallic socket-piece.

Instead of applying the pike-head and the cant-hook to the stail in the ordinary way, in which case the pike-head is simply driven into the end of the stail', such end having a collar on it, and the cant-hool is held by a pin going through the cheeks of a metallic strap or band going around the stati', I combine with the statt', the cant-hook, and the pike-head a metallic socket-piece or tube, made with separate sockets, to receive and support the staff and the' pike-head, and also having a hinge, lip, or projection extending from it hy which the canthook may be jointed to it.

In the drawings, a is the stati', or aportion thereof, I1 the pike-head, and c the cant-hook, cl the tubular socket-piece, and c the hinge projection.` 'lhe said socket-piece is formed with two tapering sockets/,fg7 one being to receive and support the pike-head, which passes into and through it, and is driven into the statt' so to expand it in its socket. The other socket receives and supports the stall", 'lhe hinge projection is recessed to receive one end of the cant-hook. A serewbolt, y', going through the two, serves to connect the cant-hook with such projection. The cant-hook is to turn freely on the said bolt.

.With my invention, the socket-piece greatly strengthens that part of the implement where the most ofthe strain comes on it when in use; and, furthermore, it prevents the pike-head from working loose with respect to the staff. When inserted in the statt', with no metallic socket to hold it at the extremity of the staff, the head is apt to drop ont of the steif or become separated therefrom, 4particularly when the latter may become dry. The metallic socket' for supporting thepike-head relieves the stail' from theY great strain, tending, when the implement is in use, to expand the hole in the steil' for receiving the shank of the pike-head. The whole constitutes a very valuable and important improvement in thelumherinans canting-pike, and secures much greater durability. l t

What I claim as my invention is-r- The combinationof the metallic socket J, the stati rt, hinged projection i', and pike-head I, with the Cnnthook e, when constructed and arranged snhstantiall as described.

J. WOODMAN GERRISII.

Witnesses:

Willson HAnMoxs. 'Davie IIAnnoNs. 

